Nerd Arts

Ernie Cline is a slam poet who writes poetry about geek, and nerd culture. Topics include why guys need nerd porn. “Did you ever see that type of woman in an adult film? no.. which is why im going to start writing and directing geek porno. I should be the quintessential nerd porn auteur, and the women in my movies will be the type of women that drive guys like me mad with desire” To “why Airwolf clearly stands out as civilisations crowning achivement”
He’s got an entire cd out that is absolutely hilarious. Buy it, or download some free tracks from his site.

To see some actual real life nerdy girl porn click here 
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Well, This information shouldn’t have been so hard to find. As many bloggers out there have most likely heard, adding a sitemap to your blog is supposed to guarantee faster indexing, better SEO optimization and better accessibility for Google. And since Google suggested it, well, I just believed them. So I was hopping around from site to site trying to download my sitemap into an xml file, but then the next dillema hit, where the hell do I put this xml file when Google is telling me the sitemap has to be located on the domain (this is for people using blogger accounts). After searching I finally found out that I can just use my atom feed URL as a sitemap. Yep, that’s all you have to do. Once you’re on the “add a sitemap to Google” page, chose “add a general sitemap” from the pulldown, then put http://Yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml (minus the blogspot if using a custom URL) into the space where it’s asking for the location of the sitemap, and poof, it’s done. Let’s see if it actually indexes faster or better now:) I for one am a bit skeptical.

Recently I found Cerror on MySpace and immediately liked his chiptune stylings. smooth laid back minimal chiptune beats that would be perfect for a 70s action film starring pitfall harry on a VGA screen. I asked for an interview. He accepted.

Nerdarts:what hardware/software do you use in creating your pieces?

Cerror:For my xm’s and it’s I use my crappy 1.7 celeron pc. Not a great pc but it runs what I wanna run. For my sndh’s (atari format) I use my 8mghz Atari 1040STf (with 1 mb of ram!) with the program Musicmon 2.5d.
For my mods I use my Amiga 500+ (workbench 1.3) and protracker 3.1 or I just use my pc…For commodore sids I sometime use Odin Tracker ( Download Odin tracker ) or just goattracker (download goattracker) on my pc.

Nerdarts:How long have you been composing music? What was your previous training?

Cerror:I used to be a drummer since I was 10, but I kinda lost interest over the years. Then in 1997 I found fasttracker 2 but I hated the GUI so I searched for a better one and I found modplug tracker. Drum&bass was the first music I made and I totally sucked at it. Then I found music from zalza/dalezy and rez plus a shitload of c64 music and I rememberd the good times I had on the commodore 128.
So I dug up all my old hardware from the attic and bought some extra stuff and got busy.

I can’t read any notes and I make all my music on hearing.
Usually it takes around 3 to 8 hours to make a tune depending on the type, complexity and inspiration (and beer consumption).

Nerdarts:Where do you draw most of your influence from?

Cerror:Radix, zalza and rez mostly, but that’s no secret if you listen to their and my tracks. The best way of becoming an chipartist yourself is by listen to others work all the time. That’s how I learned to use the tracker and how to arrange effects etc.

Nerdarts:Favorite video game/ Film?

Cerror:My favourite game all time is Wing commander (all parts) absolutely beautiful. I am also an avid Mortal Kombat player (still playing that) on my Sega Megadrive. These days I just play call of duty 2 online (nickname Bloq) and I play a lot of games on my atari and sega.

Add Cerror on MySpace
and check his homepage

Regardless of what you think about Mitt Romney, this is a decent portrayal of a candidate desperately trying to figure out what the hell to do with the internet. One thing that is obviously lacking in this video is reference to the main internet candidate which is Ron Paul. Paul dominates youtube continually, and is also currently one of the top tags on technorati. This is going to be a youtube election, and it will be interesting to watch who screws up and becomes the next Howard Dean Scream. That’s what these politicians really care about, it’s not all this horse shit about reaching out to find what people want, it’s about damage control, and having a team on staff ready to contain it when a candidate screws up.

Chicago had thousands of Bulls throughout the city years ago, Buffalo NY had, well, buffaloes, and continuing the tradition of letting a large group of artists rethink a form we have a group of comic book, tattoo, and comic book artists taking their own individual stabs at Darth Vader (well, helmut mainly). Participating artists and companies included Troy Alders, Kii Arens, Attaboy, Anthony Ausgang, Axis, Aye Jay, Gary Baseman, Andrew Bell, Tim Biskup, Andrew Brandou, Buff Monster, Mister Cartoon, Mr Clement, Steven Daily, Dalek, Cam de Leon, , Bob Dob, Marc Ecko, Eelus, Ron English, FERG, David Flores, Brian Flynn - Hybrid Design, Paul Frank Sunich, Huck Gee, Fawn Gehweiler, Mike Giant, Joe Hahn, Derek Hess, Jeremyville, Sun-MinKim, David Horvath, Jim Koch, Frank Kozik, David S. Krys - DSK Designs, Peter Kuper, Wade Lageose - Lageose Design, Joe Ledbetter, Simone Legno - Tokidoki, Mad, Bill McMullen, Melvins, Brian Morris, Niagara, Mitch O’Connell, olive47, Estevan Oriol, Alex Pardee, Pizz, Plastic God, Playskewl, Dave Pressler, J. Otto Seibold, Shag, Sket-One, Shawn Smith, Winston Smith, Jeff Soto, Bwana Spoons, Jophen Stein, Suckadelic, Cameron Tiede, Touma, UrbanMedium, Michelle Valigura, VanBeater, and Amanda Visell.
Link via starwars.com

Jun 22 2007 8:00P
The NERDCORE International Tour 2007 @ Spitz LONDON, England
Jun 23 2007 8:00P
The NERDCORE International TOUR @ ELFER MUSIC CLUB Frankfurt, Germany
Jun 24 2007 9:00P
The NERDCORE International TOUR @ Spasibar Oslo, Norway
Jun 26 2007 9:00P
The NERDCORE International Tour 2007 @ MICRODISKO - K2 Stockholm, Sweden
Jun 28 2007 9:00P
The NERDCORE International TOUR @ occii Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jun 29 2007 9:00P
The NERDCORE International TOUR @ ATAK Enschede, Netherlands
Jun 30 2007 9:00P
The NERDCORE International TOUR @ De Bakkerij Castricum, Netherlands
Jul 14 2007 6:00P
The NERDCORE International TOUR @ OTIS COLLEGE EA the SIMS event FREE ALL AGES SHOW w/ FREE DRINKZ!! Los Angeles, California
Jul 28 2007 9:00A
The NERDCORE International Tour 2007 @ The Classic Gaming Expo Las Vegas, Nevada
Jul 29 2007 10:00A
The NERDCORE International Tour 2007 @ The Classic Gaming Expo Las Vegas, Nevada

From 8 Bit Weapon’s Myspace Page
8 Bit Weapon is Naughtyboy, ComputeHer, and MelBot. 8 Bit Weapon has performed across 2 continents with an arsenal of 8 bit weapons, which include a Commodore 64 and 128, a couple Nintendo Gameboy classics, a Nintendo N.E.S., an Intellivision synthesizer, an Atari 2600, A Speak n Spell & Speak n Music, some hybrid lo-fi acoustic-electric drums, and an assortment of other vintage and toy synthesizers.

Inspired by classic videogame soundtracks and electronic music from the 70s and 80s, 8 Bit Weapon delivers a sound that is as unique as it is original. Clever melodies, nostalgic atmosphere, and energetic beats create a decidedly modern sound while maintaining a fun, lo-tech aesthetic.

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - President Teddy Roosevelt
8 Bit Weapon homepage

Visa has recently announced a new line of credit cards which give points to your World of Warcraft, or Second Life virtual accounts. Sounds good enough right? Well, while you may want to think that a company like Visa would have the best of intentions, and commend them on their savvy for entering the virtual market so early, the truth I believe is somewhat different. First of all Visa is a credit card company, and that means they make money buy gathering interest on credit. The younger they can get you the better. Im not celebrating a new plan to add gold to your WOW account for every dollar (on specified items) that you spend in the real world. This is merely a clever way to get younger people interested in Credit Cards. Most likely focused grouped in marketing departments for months before it was unleashed. Don’t buy into it. Check out this weird form detailing the billing information. Theres more footnotes and exceptions there than I would ever care to deal with.

Over at the star wars site are a number of interactive crafts, and games to play. My favorite among them is the Kid’s Craft Corner where there are instructions on how to make star wars characters out of everyday items. If you want to make an R2D2 mailbox or a Bean Art Portrait of Bossk (pictured above) then this is the perfect playground for you. And who says playing with paste is for kids??

As many of you are probably already aware, a vast virtual gold market is being developed off of virtual gold mining in world of warcraft. The gold in WOW has become the largest most tangible form of virtual currency to have ever existed. And with western gamers spending their hard earned dollars (or their allowance) on gold comes a new economic system which doesn’t differ too much from reality. A growing industry in China is setting up large defunct buildings that resemble LAN parties and paying employees near sweatshop salaries to sit in front of a computer all day and mine virtual gold. The gold is then re sold to wealthier gamers in the west.

The practice will most likely grow very quickly since Asia is a highly wired continent where internet access is plentiful, unemployment a constant problem, and the workforce tech savvy and young. World of Warcraft gold could become the Nike shoe of the 21st century.

Watch Ge Jin’s documentary Chinese Gold Farmers

I don’t know much about this guy besides the fact that he totally pwns playing video game themes on his guitar. From the Zelda dungeon sequence to the WOW login theme.
Check him on his myspace page